— Malcolm HarrisThe fact that the interviewer was another Quaker doctor assuaged the family’s concerns and probably helped young Herbert squeeze his underqualified way into the inaugural class of Leland Stanford Junior University—they’re not called Friends for nothing. In 1891, when the Governor invited the pioneer class to Palo Alto and bestowed his son’s fortune upon them, spreading the family curse for good or ill, he was speaking to Herbert Hoover.
Replicated under Fair Use from Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World by Malcolm Harris.